31 August 2011

Wed

Out today to catch a few pics for t'other blog

Went shopping without camera and saw two boats moored at the Priory centre (pointed upstream) Hastened back and got some snaps. They were from Wakefield (correct me if I'm wrong on that) and had overnighted at Forest Top. As always, nice people. Boats: Thomas Harold, named after the two owners' deceased fathers, and Lazy Days.






Walked up to Stret/Deep to get pics for t'other blog (I've loads on the computer but could do with the exercise).

At Stret Pound, Maid Marion was coming down.

Bit of a list on?

They had left but a short time when Thomas Harold hove into view …
… and was soon into Stret (after a bit of hard labour by yours truly cutting a fender off with a knife that my cutlers heritage would have called a spoon! (blunt)):

To be followed shortly by Lazy Days

Tomorrow I'll (possibly) go up to Shireoaks (if I get up in time!).

30 August 2011

Well!

As my thousands(4 actually!) of followers will have noticed, I haven't been posting. There's a multiplicity of reasons

  1. I just resurrected an old computer
  2. I'm idle
  3. Transferred all my pics to a 2 Tb drive
  4. I'm idle
  5. Got totally confused about which pics I'd uploaded(To Flickr) and which I'd yet to do
  6. I'm idle
  7. Tried to link the two computers together and somehow buggered it up
  8. I'm idle
  9. The weather
  10. I'm idle
  11. I've been busy elsewhere(Totally NOT TRUE)
  12. I'm idle
  13. I got infuriated at "F Spot" (the "program" that sorts, tags and uploads my pics)
  14. I'm idle
  15. I got bored

  16. I've done that thing again: going to bed at 8am & getting up about 3 in the afternoon!
So, as you can see it's not my fault. Anyroadup, I've not been totally feckless: I've done some stuff on t'other blog:
  • Some stuff on a map I found (of course I didn't find it - the excellent folk at Sheffield Library Local History did) about an 1824 proposal to run a canal across the Pennines to Sheffield, Chesterfield and Cromford. If only the rail had come along fifty years later!
  • A start on my life story (B O R I N G !)
  • Begun to flesh out some past walks along the canal and elsewhere, wish I'd thought of it sooner. Finding and allocating the pics is fun (not).
So I thought what I'd do here is drop a sampling of my old pics for your delectation. I've taken every 28th(don't ask) and stuck 'em here.
First batch
Tip for slideshows: don't click the centre arrow, click an edge.
They are supposed to be in date order but the camera screwed up and labelled some 2010 pics as 2006: such is life.

Just a few individual pics:






And finally a rose in the Canch rose garden:


More tomorrow, if I can be bothered

21 August 2011

Just a note

See my other blog for something I found.. Now I'm not a historian, agreeing with the apocryphal words of Henry Ford on that (I had a terrible Grammar School history teacher), but I found it interesting. Wish the Victorians had been fifty years later with the railways.

16 August 2011

28 July: To Ranby

Late but here eventually. I did the trick again: renamed all the pictures and forgot to put ".jpg" on the end. Of course F spot (it's as well it's called "F" spot!) refused to upload 'em even though it had let me import and tag them GRRRR!
First a slideshow of the walk (It was along the Chesterfield Canal from Worksop to Ranby):


For some reason I've always liked teasels:


Insects aren't troubled by the spikes.

Back in Worksop Nb Apfelkorn was coming down through Morse Lock